O mundo estava no rosto da amada - Rainer Maria Rilke (que faleceu faz hoje 82 anos)

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O mundo estava no rosto da amada -
e logo converteu-se em nada, em
mundo fora do alcance, mundo-além.

Por que não o bebi quando o encontrei
no rosto amado, um mundo à mão, ali,
aroma em minha boca, eu só seu rei?

Ah, eu bebi. Com que sede eu bebi.
Mas eu também estava pleno de
mundo e, bebendo, eu mesmo transbordei.

(Tradução: Augusto de Campos)

Rainer Maria Rilke (n. em Praga 1875; m. em Valmont, Suiça a 29 Dez. 1926

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On this day in History - Dec. 29

• 0721 - Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 0661).
• 1170 - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1118), was murdered by four knights acting under the orders of Henry II.
• 1223 - El Papa Honorio III aprueba la regla de la Orden de los Frailes Menores (Franciscanos) fundada por San Francisco de Asis en 1209.
• 1563 - Sebastian Castellio dies (b. 1515). French theologian.
• 1586 - Francisco de Moncada was born. Spanish earl of Osuna/marquis of Aytona.
• 1634 - John Albert Vasa dies (b. 1612). Polish bishop.
• 1661 - Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant dies (b. 1594). French poet.
• 1673 - D. Manuel Luís Baltazar da Câmara dies (b. 1630). Portuguese nobleman.
• 1678 - Gotthard Wagner was born. Composer.
• 1689 - Thomas Sydenham dies (b. 1624). English physician who has been called “the English Hippocrates” as a founder of clinical medicine and epidemiology, emphasizing detailed observations of patients and maintaining accurate records.
• 1709 - Elisabeth Petrovna, Elizabeth of Russia, was born (d. 1762). Tsarina of Russia, daughter of Peter the Great .
• 1721 - Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson (Madame de Pompadour) was born [† 15 Apr 1764]. Mistress of French King Louis XV.
• 1721 - Occupation de l'Île Maurice par les Français, qu'ils baptisent Ile de France .
• 1731 - Brook Taylor dies [b. 1685]. British mathematician noted for his contributions to the development of calculus. In 1708, Taylor produced a solution to the problem of the centre of oscillation. His (1715) “Direct and Indirect Methods of Incrementation” introduced what is now called the calculus of finite differences.
• 1737 - Joseph Saurin dies (b. 1659). French mathematician.
• 1743 - Hyacinthe Rigaud dies in Paris. One of the most prolific and successful French portrait painters of the Baroque period.
• 1766 - Charles Macintosh, was born in Glasgow [d. 1843]; Scottish chemist and manufacturer. He developed his famous method of waterproofing cloth (1823) .
• 1778 - American Revolutionary War: 3,500 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell captures Savannah, Georgia without firing a shot.
• 1785 - Johan Herman Wessel dies (b. 1742). Norwegian poet.
• 1786 - French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convoked.
• 1788 - Christian Jürgensen Thomsen was born [d.1865) Danish archaeologist who devoloped the three-part system of prehistory, naming the Stone, Bronze, and Iron ages for the successive stages of man's technological development in Europe.
• 1796 - Johann Christian Poggendorff was born (d. 1877). German physicist.
• 1799 - Joaquín Acosta was born [d. 1852]; Colombian scientist, historian, and statesman who sought to preserve knowledge of his country's early history.
• 1800 - Charles Goodyear was born (d. 1860). American inventor (vulcanized rubber).
• 1808 - Andrew Johnson was born (d. 1875). 17th President of the United States and the first ever to be impeached.
• 1809 - William Ewart Gladstone was born [d. 1897]. Statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1812 - USS Constitution (Captain William Bainbridge) captures HMS Java off Brazil after a three hour battle.
• 1813 - Alexander Parkes was born [d. 1890]; British chemist and inventor who developed various industrial processes and materials.
• 1813 - War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York.
• 1816 - Carl Friedrich Ludwig was born [d. 1895]; he was a founder of the physicochemical school of physiology in Germany. He developed the kymograph (1847) and a mercurial blood-gas pump (1859) which enables the separation of blood from the mixture of gases in it for analysis.
• 1825 - Simon Bolivar Palacios abandonne la Présidence de la Bolivie, qu'il laisse à son lieutenant Antonio José de Sucre Alcala.
• 1825 - Jacques-Louis David dies (b. 1748). French painter.
• 1835 - The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.
• 1840 - Anton Dohrn was born (d. 1909). Zoologist.
• 1841 - Se le concede por gracia la nacionalidad chilena al naturalista francés Claudio Gay.
• 1843 - Elisabeth of Wied (pen name was Carmen Sylva) was born (d. 1916). Queen of Romania and writer.
  
• 1845 - Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
• 1851 - The first American-based YMCA opens, in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1853 - João Gomes de Oliveira Guimarães [Abade de Tagilde] was born (d. 20 Apr. 1912). Portuguese historian and politician.
  
• 1856 - Thomas Joannes Stieltjes was born (d. 1894). Dutch mathematician.
• 1859 - Venustiano Carranza was born (d. 1920). 54th President of México (1915-20) .
• 1860 - The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, the HMS Warrior is launched.
• 1862 - American Civil War: End of the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou.
• 1865 - Abolitionist crusader William Lloyd Garrison published the last issue of The Liberator.
• 1869 - Se funda el Observatorio Astrónomico de Córdoba, Argentina.
• 1876 - The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster, 64 injured, 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
• 1876 - Pablo Casals was born in Venrdell (d. 1973). Spanish cellist, conductor and composer.
• 1877 - Adolfo Alsina dies. Argentine politician.
• 1881 - Jess Willard was born (d. 1968). American boxer.
• 1888 - Gustavo Barroso was born Fortaleza (d. 1959). Brazilian writer.
• 1890 - United States soldiers clash with members of the Great Sioux Nation in the Wounded Knee Massacre.
• 1891 - Thomas Edison patents the radio.
• 1891 - Leopold Kronecker dies (b. 1823). German mathematician. His major contributions in elliptic functions, the theory of algebraic equations, and the theory of algebraic numbers. However the topics he studied were restricted by the fact that he believed in the reduction of all mathematics to arguments involving only the integers and a finite number of steps.
• 1893 - Vera Brittain was born. Novelist, poet .
• 1894 - Christina Rossetti dies (b. 1830). English poet.
• 1895 - Leander Starr Jameson launched an abortive raid into the Transvaal to overthrow the Boer government of Paul Kruger.
• 1896 - David Alfaro Siqueiros was born (d. 1974). Mexican painter/muralist (Liberation of Chile).
• 1897 - William James Linton dies (b. 1812). American wood engraver and political reformer.
  
• 1898 - Se estrena en Munich el poema sinfónico Don Quijote, de Richard Straus.
• 1899 - Nie Rongzhen was born (d. 1992). Chinese Communist military leader.
• 1900 - Osvaldo Orico was born (d. 1981). Brazilian writer.
• 1902 - Nels Stewart was born (d. 1957). National Hockey League player.
• 1903 - Candido Portinari was born (d. 1962). Brazilian painter.
• 1908 - Helmut Gollwitzer was born (d. 1993). German theologian.
• 1910 - Ronald Coase was born. British economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1911 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China.
• 1911 - Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty.
• 1911 - Klaus Fuchs was born [d.1988]; Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs was a German-born physicist and spy who was arrested and convicted (1950) for giving vital American and British atomic-research secrets to the Soviet Union.
• 1911 - Alves Redol was born in Vila Franca de Xira (d. 29 Nov 1969). Portuguese writer (Gaibéus).
• 1913 - The first serial motion picture, The Unwelcome Throne is released by Seligs Polyscope Company.
• 1914 - Billy Tipton was born (d. 1989). American musician.
• 1914 - Albert Tucker was born (d. 1999). Australian artist.
• 1915 - Bill Osmanski was born (d. 1996). American football player.
• 1916 - Grigori Rasputin dies (b. 1869). Russian monk.
• 1917 - Tom Bradley was born (d. 1998). Mayor of Los Angeles, California.
• 1917 - Ramanand Sagar was born (d. 2005). Indian film director.
• 1920 - Viveca Lindfors was born (d. 1995). Swedish-American actress.
• 1921 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1921 - Robert C. Baker was born (d. 2006). Inventor of the chicken nugget.
• 1922 - William Gaddis was born (d. 1998). American writer.
• 1924 - Carl Spitteler dies (b. 1845). Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1925 - French Comunist Party is created.
• 1925 - Pete Dye was born. American golf course architect.
• 1926 - Rainer Maria Rilke dies (4 Dec 1875). German poet.
• 1927 - Andy Stanfield was born (d. 1985). American athlete.
• 1928 - Bernard Cribbins was born. British actor.
• 1929 - Wilhelm Maybach dies (b. 1846). German engineer and industrialist who was the chief designer of the first Mercedes automobiles (1900-01).
• 1930 - Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the Two-Nation Theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
• 1931 - Prince Gu of Korea was born (d. 2005).
• 1932 - Inga Swenson was born. American actress.
• 1934 - The first college basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York City is played, between the University of Notre Dame and New York University .
• 1934 - Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
• 1934 - Ed Flanders was born (d. 1995). American actor.
• 1934 - Tom Jarriel was born. American correspondent.
• 1936 - Mary Tyler Moore was born. American actress.
• 1936 - Ray Nitschke was born (d. 1998). American football player.
• 1936 - Angelina Muñiz-Huberman was born. French-born Mexican writer (Dulcinea encantada; Huerto cerrado, huerto sellado; De magias y prodigios; La memoria del aire).
• 1936 - John Cornford dies murdered in Madrid (b. 27 Dec 1915). English author [The Last Mile to Huesca (1936) and Poems from Spain (1936)].
• 1937 - The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
• 1937 - Barbara Steele was born. British actress.
• 1937 - Wayne Huizenga was born. American football team owner.
• 1937 - Don Marquis dies (b. 1878). American author.
• 1938 - Harvey Smith was born. English showjumper.
• 1938 - Jon Voight was born. American actor (Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy) .
• 1939 - First flight of the Consolidated B-24.
• 1940 - During World War II, Germany began dropping incendiary bombs on London, killing almost 200 civilians.
• 1941 - Tullio Levi-Civita dies [b. 1873]; Italian mathematician known for his work on the absolute differential calculus with its applications to the theory of relativity.
• 1941 - Ray Thomas was born. British musician (The Moody Blues).
• 1942 - Rick Danko was born (d. 1999) Canadian musician (The Band).
• 1942 - Rajesh Khanna was born. Indian actor.
• 1946 - Abel de Lima Salazar dies in Lisbon (b. 19 Jul 1889). Portuguese physician, scientist and painter.
• 1946 - Marianne Faithfull was born. British singer.
• 1947 - Ted Danson was born. American actor.
• 1947 - Cozy Powell was born (d. 1998). English rock drummer.
• 1947 - Vincent Winter was born (d. 1998). British actor.
• 1949 - KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
• 1949 - David Topliss was born. English rugby league player.
• 1949 - Syed Kirmani was born. Cricket player.
• 1951 - Georges Thurston was born (d. 2007). Canadian singer.
  
• 1951 - Yvonne Elliman was born. American disco singer.
• 1952 - Gelsey Kirkland was born. American dancer.
• 1952 - A coelacanth, once thought to have been extinct for 75 million years, is caught off the Comoros and sent to scientists in South Africa.
• 1953 - Gali Atari was born. Israeli singer.
• 1953 - Stanley Tookie Williams was born (d. 2005). American author/murderer.
• 1953 - Violet MacMillan dies (b. 1887). American Broadway theatre actress.
  
• 1954 - Prince Takamado of Japan was born (d. 2002).
• 1954 - Roger Voudouris was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1954 - William Merriam Burton dies [b. 1865]; American chemist who developed a thermal cracking process for increasing the proportion of gasoline obtainable from crude petroleum.
• 1956 - Fred MacAulay was born. Scottish comedian.
• 1956 - Metro of Lisbon (Portugal) is inaugurated.
• 1957 - Singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme were married in Las Vegas.
• 1957 - Brad Grey was born. American film producer.
• 1957 - Paul Rudnick was born. American screenwriter/playwright.
• 1958 - Nancy J. Currie was born. American astronaut.
• 1959 - Paula Poundstone was born. American comedian.
• 1959 - Patricia Clarkson was born. American actress.
• 1960 - David Boon was born. Australian cricketer.
• 1960 - Thomas Lubanga was born. Founder and leader of Union of Congolese Patriots.
  
• 1960 - Frederick Fuller Russell dies [b. 1870]; American scientist who developed the first successful U.S. typhoid fever vaccine.
• 1960 - Henri-Gaston Busignies was born [d. 1981]; French-born American electronics engineer permitted the U.S. Navy during World War II to detect enemy transmissions ( from wich a radio transmission was coming) throught his high-frequency direction finders (HF/DF) Busignies invented also the radiocompass (1926) .
• 1960 - Eden Phillpotts dies (b. 1862). British writer.
• 1960 - Philippe Panneton dies (b. 1895). Quebec physician, diplomat and writer.
• 1961 - Kevin Granata was born (d. 2007). American associate professor at Virginia Tech, victim of the Virginia Tech massacre.
  
• 1961 - Jim Reid was born. Scottish singer (The Jesus and Mary Chain, Freeheat).
• 1961 - Anton Flettner dies (b. 1885). German inventor of the rotor ship, a vessel propelled by revolving cylinders mounted vertically on the deck. He also developed a device that allowed airplane pilots to raise or lower a plane's nose for better control. 1963 - Francisco Bustamante was born. Filipino billiard player.
• 1962 - Blake Mitchell was born. American adult actress.
• 1962 - Devon White was born. Jamaican baseball player.
• 1963 - Twenty-two people perish in the Hotel Roosevelt fire, the worst fire to occur in Jacksonville, Florida since the Great Fire of 1901.
• 1963 - Dave McKean was born. English artist and filmmaker.
• 1963 - Des Foy was born. British rugby league player.
• 1963 - Francisco Bustamante was born. Filipino billiard player.
• 1963 - Sean Payton was born. American football coach.
• 1965 - Dexter Holland was born. Rock musician (The Offspring).
• 1966 - Stefano Eranio was born. Italian football player.
• 1967 - Andy Wachowski was born. American director.
• 1967 - Ashleigh Banfield was born. Canadian journalist.
• 1967 - Chris Barnes was born. American singer.
• 1967 - Paul Whiteman dies (b. 1890). The “King of Jazz”. His sucesses includes “My Blue Heaven” and “All of Me”.
• 1967 - Edson Cordeiro was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1968 - Numa operação antiterrorista, comandos israelitas destroem 13 aviões de guerra libaneses.
• 1968 - Austin Farrer dies (b. 1904). English theologian and philosopher.
  
• 1969 - Allan McNish was born. Scottish race car driver.
• 1969 - Jennifer Ehle was born. American actress.
• 1970 - Aled Jones was born. Welsh singer and television presenter.
• 1970 - Enrico Chiesa was born in Genoa. Italian football player.
• 1970 - Kevin Weisman was born. American actor.
• 1970 - Glen Phillips was born. American singer/songwriter (Toad The Wet Sprocket).
• 1970 - Hidetoshi Mitsusada was born. Japanese racing driver.
• 1970 - Marie Menken dies (b. 1909). American experimental filmmaker and socialite.
• 1972 - An Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed "Tristar") crashed on approach to Miami International Airport killing 101.
• 1972 - Asheru was born. American rapper.
• 1972 - Evan Seinfeld was born. American musician (Biohazard) and actor.
• 1972 - Jason Kreis was born. American soccer player.
• 1972 - Jude Law was born. English actor.
• 1973 - Pimp C was born. American rapper (UGK).
• 1973 - Theo Epstein was born. Baseball general manager.
• 1974 - Mekhi Phifer was born. American actor.
• 1974 - Richie Sexson was born. Baseball player.
• 1975 - A bomb explodes at New York City's LaGuardia Airport killing 11.
• 1975 - Jaret Wright was born. American baseball player.
• 1976 - Daniel de Oliveira was born. Brazilian composer and musician.
• 1976 - Danny R. McBride was born. American actor, writer, and producer.
• 1976 - Filip Kuba was born. Czech hockey player, defenseman for the Ottawa Senators.
• 1976 - Katherine Moennig was born. American actress.
• 1976 - Ivo Van Damme dies (b. 1954). Belgian athlete.
• 1977 - Jimmy Journell was born. American baseball player.
• 1978 - Alexis Amore was born. Peruvian actress, dancer and model.
• 1978 - Kieron Dyer was born. English footballer.
• 1978 - LaToya London was born. American singer.
• 1979 - Closing night of the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea at the Hammersmith Odeon; a benefit concert for the citizens of Cambodia who were victims of dictator Pol Pot.
• 1979 - Ariel Schrag was born. American cartoonist.
• 1979 - Diego Luna was born. Mexican actor.
• 1979 - Justin Roberts was born. American wrestling announcer.
• 1979 - Mitsuhiro Ishida was born. Japanese mixed-martial arts fighter.
• 1980 - Nadezhda Mandelstam was born (b. 1899). Russian writer.
• 1980 - Tim Hardin dies (b. 1941). American musician.
• 1981 - Angela Via was born. American singer.
• 1981 - Shizuka Arakawa was born. Japanese figure skater.
• 1981 - Miroslav Krleža dies (b. 1893). Croatian writer.
• 1982 - Gabrielle Destroismaisons was born. Quebec singer.
• 1983 - Mariage de Caroline de Monaco et Stefano Casiraghi.
• 1983 - Jessica Andrews was born. American country music artist
• 1984 - Rajiv Gandhi wins landslide election victory (BBC)
• 1986 - Kim Ok-bin was born. South Korean actress and model.
• 1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky dies (b. 1932). Russian director.
• 1986 - Harold Macmillan dies in Sussex, England. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1986 - Joaquim Namorado dies (b. 1914). Portuguese poet.
• 1987 - Yuri Romanenko, cosmonaute soviétique, revient sur terre après avoir établi le record de la plus longue mission dans l'espace soit 326 jours, 11 heures et 40 minutes.
• 1987 - Yuhi Sekiguchi was born. Japanese racing driver.
• 1988 - Agnes Szavay was born. Hungarian tennis player.
• 1988 - Samantha Lainez was born. Peruvian actress.
• 1988 - Mike Beuttler dies (b. 1940). British racing driver.
  
• 1989 - Vaclav Havel was elected President of Czechoslovakia. Novelist and playwright Václav Havel was unanimously elected president of Czechoslovakia without having to face an opposing candidate.
• 1989 - Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
• 1989 - On the final day of trading for the year and decade, the Japanese Nikkei 225 Average closes at an all-time high of 38,915.87.
• 1989 - Nathan Forbes was born. British footballer.
• 1989 - Hermann Julius Oberth dies [b. 1894]; German scientist who is considered to be one of the founders of modern astronautics.
• 1992 - Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign among corruption charges, but ended up being impeached.
• 1992 - Itamar Franco is the new President of Brazil.
• 1992 - President Daniel Torotich arap Moi wins the first multi-party elections held in Kenya for 26 years.
• 1993 - Construction of the Tian Tan Buddha, the world's tallest outdoor bronze statue of the seated Buddha, was completed.
• 1993 - The Convention on Biological Diversity (United Nations) entered in force. (It was opened for signature on 5 June 1992 and entered into force on 29 December0 1993).
• 1993 - Frunzik Mkrtchyan dies (b. 1930). Soviet Armenian actor.
• 1994 - Princess Kako of Akishino of Japan was born.
• 1995 - Nello Celio dies at 81. President of Switzerland (1972).
• 1995 - Lita Grey dies (b 1908). American actress.
  
• 1996 - Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord that ends a 36 year a civil war.
• 1996 - Mireille dies (b. 1906). French singer and actress.
• 1997 - Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's chickens (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
• 1998 - Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million in the 1970s.
• 1998 - Six people have died after mountainous seas smashed into yachts taking part in the prestigious Sydney to Hobart race.
• 1998 - Jean-Claude Forest dies (b. 1930). Writer and illustrator of comics (Barbarella).
• 1999 - Jerzy Waldorff dies (b. 1910). Polish film and music critic.
• 1999 - Leon Radzinowicz dies (b. 1906). British criminologist.
• 1999 - The Nasdaq composite index closed above 4,000 for the first time, ending the day at 4,041.46.
• 2001 - Mesa Redonda shopping center fire, Lima, Peru, at least 291 killed.
• 2001 - Cássia Eller dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 10 Dec 1962). Brazilian singer and musician.
• 2001 - Takashi Asahina dies (b. 1908). Japanese conductor.
• 2002 - Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium/Cinergy Field is demolished.
• 2003 - Bob Monkhouse dies (b. 1928). English comedian and game show host.
• 2003 - Dinsdale Landen dies (b. 1932). English actor.
• 2003 - Earl Hindman dies (b. 1942). American actor.
• 2004 - Julius Axelrod dies (b. 1912). American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 2004 - Liddy Holloway dies (b. 1947). New Zealand actress.
• 2004 - Ken Burkhart dies (b. 1915). Baseball player.
• 2005 - Officials Hope to Free Hostages in Yemen Soon. Yemeni authorities say they are hopeful of a speedy release of a kidnapped former high-ranking German official and his family seized by tribesmen in the eastern part of the country.
• 2005 - Gerda Boyesen dies (b. 1922). Norwegian-born body psychotherapist.
• 2007 - Kevin Greening dies (b. 1962). British radio presenter.
• 2007 - Phil O'Donnell dies (b. 1972). Scottish footballer.

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Olavo Bilac desapareceu há 90 anos - Por estas Noites

Olavo Bilac [Olavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac] faleceu faz hoje 90 anos no Rio de Janeiro. Nascido na mesma cidade brasileira em 16 de Dezembro de 1865 foi jornalista, poeta e membro fundador da Academia Brasileira de Letras em 1896. Passou por Medicina e por Direito (não comcluindo os cursos) mas foi por causa da sua escrita na língua de Camões, essa «Última flor do Lácio, inculta e bela», que estamos aqui a relembrá-lo. Juntamente com Alberto de Oliveira e Raimundo Correia, foi a maior liderança e expressão do parnasianismo no Brasil, constituindo a chamada Tríade Parnasiana (ver Parnasianismo).

Olavo Bilac, considerado o Príncipe dos Poetas Brasileiros foi também o autor da letra do Hino à Bandeira.

Na sua obra conta-se: * Poesias (1888) * Crônicas e novelas (1894) * Crítica e fantasia (1904) * Conferências literárias (1906) * Dicionário de rimas (1913) * Tratado de versificação (1910) * Ironia e piedade, crônicas (1916) * Tarde (1919); Poesia, org. de Alceu Amoroso Lima (1957), e obras didáticas.

Desempenhou vários cargos públicos no estado do Rio de Janeiro e na antiga Guanabara, e foi um dos fundadores da Liga da Defesa Nacional (da qual foi secretário geral). Foi conferencista e a sua obra tornou-se leitura obrigatória, sendo declamado nos círculos literários.

Como jornalista nas palavras do crítico João Adolfo Hansen, "o mestre do passado, do livro de poesia escrito longe do estéril turbilhão da rua, não será o mesmo mestre do presente, do jornal, a cronicar assuntos cotidianos do Rio, prontinho para intervenções de Agache e a erradicação da plebe rude, expulsa do centro para os morros" (daqui).

Amantes Imagem daqui

Por estas noites frias e brumosas
É que melhor se pode amar, querida!
Nem uma estrela pálida, perdida
Entre a névoa, abre as pálpebras medrosas

Mas um perfume cálido de rosas
Corre a face da terra adormecida ...
E a névoa cresce, e, em grupos repartida,
Enche os ares de sombras vaporosas:

Sombras errantes, corpos nus, ardentes
Carnes lascivas ... um rumor vibrante
De atritos longos e de beijos quentes ...

E os céus se estendem, palpitando, cheios
Da tépida brancura fulgurante
De um turbilhão de braços e de seios.

Neste blog pode encontrar mais os seguintes poemas:
Nel Mezzo del Camin
Por tanto tempo
Via Láctea
Delírio
Um beijo
Ao coração que sofre

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On this day in History - Dec. 28

• 0300 - Theonas dies. Patriarch of Alexandria.
  
• 0418 - St. Boniface I becomes Pope.
• 1065 - Westminster Abbey consecrated.
• 1164 - Emperor Rokujo of Japan was born (d. 1176).
• 1308 - The reign of Emperor Hanazono, emperor of Japan, begins.
• 1367 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira dies (b. 1330). Japanese shogun.
• 1446 - Antipope Clement VIII dies.
• 1484 - Joachim Vadianus [von Watt] was born. Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen.
• 1503 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici dies (b. 1471). Ruler of Florence.
• 1522 - Margaret of Austria was born (d. 1583). Regent of the Netherlands.
• 1558 - Hermann Finck dies (b. 1527). German composer.
• 1612 - Galileo Galilei was the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune when it was in conjunction with Jupiter, yet he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star because of its extremely slow motion along the ecliptic at that time. Neptune was not truly discovered until 1846, about 234 years after Galileo first sighted it with his telescope.
• 1619 - Antoine Furetière was born (d. 1688). French writer.
• 1622 - Francis de Sales dies (b. 1567). French bishop of Geneva, writer and saint.
• 1635 - Princess Elizabeth of England was born (d. 1650).
• 1655 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis was born (d. 1698). First Lord of the British Admiralty.
• 1663 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi dies (b. 1618). Italian mathematician and physicist .
• 1665 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland was born (d. 1716). English general.
• 1671 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius dies (b. 1611). German classical scholar.
• 1694 - Queen Mary II of England died of smallpox in London at age 32, after five years of joint rule with her husband, King William III.
• 1703 - Mustafa II dies (b. 1664). Ottoman Sultan.
• 1706 - Pierre Bayle dies (b. 1647). French philosopher.
• 1708 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort dies (b. 1656). French botanist.
• 1715 - William Carstares dies (b. 1649). Scottish minister.
• 1734 - Rob Roy dies (b. 1671). Outlaw known as the Scottish Robin Hood.
• 1736 - Antonio Caldara dies (b. 1670). Italian composer.
• 1763 - John Molson was born (d. 1836). English-born Canadian brewer (Molson Brewery).
• 1768 - King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.
• 1775 - João Domingos Bomtempo was born (d. 1842). Portuguese oboist.
• 1777 - Alexander I - Russia was born. Czar de Russia.
• 1778 - Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki was born (d. 1846). Polish politician.
• 1795 - Eugenio Espejo dies (b. 1747). Ecuadorian scientist.
• 1798 -Thomas Henderson was born (died 23-Nov-1844). Scottish astronomer who, as royal astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope (1831-33), was the first to measure the parallax of a star (Alpha Centauri).
• 1813 - Irineu_Evangelista_de_Souza was born in Arroio Grande, Jaguarão (RS) (d. 21 Oct 1889). Brazilian industrialist and politician.
• 1814 - Sir John Bennet Lawes was born (d. 31-Aug-1900), (1st Baronet) English agronomist who founded the artificial fertilizer industry and Rothamsted Experimental Station, the oldest agricultural research station in the world.
• 1828 - 6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan, 30,000 killed.
• 1829 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck dies (b. 1744). French scientist.
• 1832 - In Missouri, St. Louis Academy (founded in 1818) was chartered as St. Louis University. It was the first Catholic university established in the U.S. west of the Allegheny Mountains.
• 1832 - John C. Calhoun became the first vice president in U.S. history to resign from office.
• 1835 - Osceola led his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the U.S. Army.
• 1836 - Spain recognizes independence of Mexico.
• 1836 - South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
• 1842 - Calixa Lavallée was born (d. 1891). French Canadian composer (O Canada).
• 1846 - Iowa became the 29th state in the United States.
• 1847 - Samuel A. Ward was born. American music publisher. Ward composed the tune MATERNA, to which we sing today the patriotic hymn, "America, The Beautiful."
• 1852 - Leonardo Torres Quevedo was born at Santa Cruz de Iruña, Santander. Spanish scientist and inventor.
• 1853 - Inglês de Sousa was born in Óbidos, Pará (d. 6 Sep. 1918). Brazilian politician and writer.
• 1855 - Juan Zorrilla de San Martin was born. Uruguay's diplomat/poet (Tabar).
• 1856 - Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia. 28th President of the United States (d. 1924); He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919.
• 1859 - Thomas Macaulay dies (b. 1800). British poet, historian, and politician.
• 1861 - Se funda la ciudad de Mulchen en Chile.
• 1861 - Autoproclamación como Rey de la Araucania de Orélie-Antoine.
• 1862 - Joaquim Casimiro Júnior dies (b. 30 May 1808). Portuguese composer.
• 1866 - Szymon Askenazy was born (d. 1935). Polish historian, diplomat and politician.
• 1867 - United States claims Midway Island, first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
• 1869 - William F. Semple patented chewing gum. See The History of Chewing Gum and Bubble Gum (in About).
• 1872 - James Van Ness dies (b. 1808). Mayor of San Francisco (1855-1856).
• 1877 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov dies (b. 1821). Russian poet.
• 1878 - Jose Bernardo Alcedo dies (b. 1788) . Peruvian composer.
• 1878 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Quod apostolici muneris (socialism).
• 1879 - The Tay Bridge Disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train passed over it, killing 75.
• 1879 - Billy Mitchell was born (d. 1936). American military aviation pioneer.
• 1882 - Sir Arthur Eddington was born (d. 1944). English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician who did his greatest work in astrophysics, investigating the motion, ternal structure, and evolution of stars.
• 1882 - William P.S. Earle was born (d. 30 Nov. 1972). American film director.
• 1884 - Castorina Lobo de São Thiago was born in Tubarão (d. in Blumenau on 24 Aug. 1974). Brazilian poet.
• 1888 - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau was born ( †11 Mar 1931). German film producer. After graduating in dramatic arts, he founded the Murnau-Veidt Filmgesellschaft and shot his first film, "Der Knabe in Blau" (“The Blue Boy”). In 1922 he produced "Nosferatu", a film that became one of the most important silent film works.
• 1889 - Tereza Cristina dies in Porto, Portugal. Brazilian Emperess.
• 1892 - Alfred Irving Hallowell was born; a U.S. cultural anthropologist known for his work on the North American Indians.
• 1894 - Alfred Sherwood Romer, was born (died 5 Nov 1973). U.S. paleontologist widely known for his concepts of evolutionary history of vertebrate animals.
• 1895 - The Lumiere Brothers gave the first commercial movie show at the Grand Cafe in Paris.
• 1897 - The play Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris.
• 1898 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby was born (d. 1957). Swedish meteorologist.
• 1898 - Shigematsu Sakaibara was born (d. 1947). Japanese admiral.
• 1899 - Eugeniusz Bodo was born (d. 1943). Polish actor.
• 1900 - Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto dies (b. 1846). Portuguese explorer.
• 1902 - The first indoor professional American football game is played in New York City at Madison Square Garden.
• 1902 - Mortimer J. Adler was born (d. 2001). American philosopher and author (Encyclopedia Brittanica).
• 1902 - Shen Congwen was born (d. 1988). Chinese writer.
• 1903 - John von Neumann was born (d. 1957). Hungarian-born mathematician (Bocher Award 1938).
• 1903 - Earl "Fatha" Hines was born (d. 1983). American musician.
• 1903 - French Congo is split into Ubangi-Shari, Chad, Gabon, and Middle Congo.
• 1905 - Cliff Arquette was born (d. 1974). American actor and comedian.
• 1906 - Ecuador adopts its constitution.
• 1908 - Elvira Vargas Rivera was born (d. 1967). Mexican journalist.
• 1908 - Lew Ayres was born (d. 1996). American actor.
• 1908 - An earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily killing over 75,000.
• 1910 - Billy Williams was born (d. 1972). American singer.
• 1912 - The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
• 1913 - Lou Jacobi was born. Canadian actor.
• 1915 - Pops Staples was born (d. 2000). American musician (The Staple Singers).
• 1916 - Eduard Strauss dies (b. 1835). Austrian composer.
• 1917 - the New York Evening Mail published a facetious — as well as fictitious — essay by H.L. Mencken on the history of bathtubs in America.
• 1917 - Alfred Edwin McKay dies (b. 1892). Canadian World War One flying ace.
• 1918 - Olavo Bilac dies (b. 1865). Brazilian poet.
• 1919 - Johannes Rydberg dies (b. 1854). Swedish physicist.
• 1922 - Stan Lee was born. American comic book writer.
• 1922 - Mariana Rey Monteiro was born. Portuguese actress.
• 1924 - Milton Obote was born (d. 2005). President of Uganda.
• 1924 - Léon Bakst dies (b. 1866). Russian artist.
• 1925 - Hildegard Knef was born (d. 2002). German actress, singer and writer.
• 1927 - Ernesto de la Cárcova dies in Buenos Aires (b. 3 Mar 1866). Argentine painter "Sin pan y sin trabajo" (1894).
• 1928 - Moe Koffman was born (d. 2001). Canadian jazz musician.
• 1929 - "Black Saturday" in Samoa: New Zealand colonial police kill 11 unarmed demonstrators, an event which leads the Mau movement to demand independence for Samoa.
• 1929 - Terry Sawchuk was born (d. 1970). Canadian hockey player.
• 1929 - Brian Redhead was born (d. 1994). English journalist and broadcaster.
• 1931 - Guy Debord was born (d. 1994). Member of the Lettrist International, Socialisme ou Barbarie and a founder and chief essayist of the Situationist International.
• 1932 - Dhirubhai Ambani was born (d. 2002). Indian businessman.
• 1932 - Manuel Puig was born (d. 1990). Argentine writer (Blood of Requited Love).
• 1932 - Roy Hattersley was born. British politician.
• 1932 - Dorsey Burnette was born (d. 1979). American singer.
• 1932 - Harry Howell was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1932 - Jack Blackham dies (b. 1854). Australian cricketer.
• 1933 - Nichelle Nichols was born. American actress and singer.
• 1934 - Dame Maggie Smith was born. British actress.
• 1934 - Maggie Smith was born. English actress (Death on Nile, Clash of Titans)
• 1934 - Yujiro Ishihara was born (d. 1987). Japanese actor.
• 1934 - Pablo Gargallo dies. Spanish sculptor known for his figures sculpted from iron and other metals.
• 1935 - Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.
• 1935 - Fernando Lopes was born at Maçãs de D. Maria, Alvaiázere. Portuguese film director (Belarmino - 1964, O Encoberto - 1975, Crónica dos Bons Malandros -1984, Matar Saudades -1988, O Delfim - 2002... )
• 1936 - Jacques Mesrine was born (d. 1979). French criminal.
• 1936 - Abílio Diniz was born. Brazilian entrepreneur.
• 1937 - A primeira Constituição da República da Irlanda é estabelecida. Na época, o primeiro-ministro era Eamon de Valera, fundador do Exército Republicano Irlandês (IRA).
• 1937 - Ratan Tata was born. Indian industrialist.
• 1937 - Pinto da Costa was born. President of FC Porto.
• 1937 - Maurice Ravel dies in Paris (b. 1875). Swiss/French composer (Bolero).
• 1938 - Charles Neville was born. American musician (Neville Brothers).
• 1938 - Florence Lawrence dies (b. 1886). American actress.
• 1939 - First flight of the Consolidated XB-24 "Liberator" bomber prototype.
• 1939 - Philip Anschutz was born. American businessman.
• 1940 - Don Francisco was born. Chilean television host.
• 1941 - Starts the Operation Anthropoid (the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague).
• 1943 - Richard Whiteley was born (d. 2005). British television presenter.
• 1943 - David Peterson was born. Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario
• 1943 - Steve Evans dies (b. 1885). American baseball player.
• 1944 - Johnny Isakson was born. American politician.
• 1944 - Kary Mullis was born. American chemist, cowinner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1993) for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
• 1945 - The U. S. Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance.
• 1945 - Theodore Dreiser dies (b. 1871). American author.
• 1946 - Edgar Winter was born. American musician.
• 1946 - Neusita Luz de Azevedo Churkin was born in Governador Celso Ramos, Santa Catarina. Brazilian poet.
• 1946 - Pierre Falardeau was born. Quebec film director
• 1947 - Aurelio Rodríguez was born (d. 2000). Mexican baseball player.
• 1947 - Wynonie Harris records "Good Rockin' Tonight".
• 1947 - Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46) and Ethiopia, dies at 78 /Victor Manuel III, último rei de Itália, morreu em Alexandria, Egipto, no exílio. Rei desde 1900, devido ao assassinato do seu pai, nomeou Mussolini primeiro ministro, não tendo sido capaz de impedir os fascistas de tomar o poder. Tinha abdicado em 1946.
• 1948 - The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.
• 1948 - Egyptian premier, Mahmoud Fatimy, is assassinated by a member of Al Ikhwan al Muslimun (the Muslim Brotherhood).
• 1949 - Jack Lovelock dies (b. 1910). New Zealand athlete.
• 1950 - The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
• 1950 - Alex Chilton was born. American songwriter, guitarist, singer and producer (Box Tops)
• 1950 - Øivind Blunck was born. Norwegian comedian and actor.
• 1951 - José Pedro Gomes was born in Lisbon. Portuguese actor and author.
• 1951 - Ian Buruma was born. Anglo-Dutch scholar and writer on Japan and the Far East.
• 1952 - Arun Jaitley was born. Indian politician.
• 1952 - Fletcher Henderson dies (b. 1897). American musician.
• 1953 - Richard Clayderman was born. French pianist.
• 1954 - Denzel Washington was born. American actor (Dr Chandler-St Elsewhere).
• 1956 - Nigel Kennedy was born. English violinist.
• 1957 - Robert Wagner /Natalie Wood wedding.
• 1957 - Anne Sargeant was born. Australian netballer.
• 1958 - "Greatest Game Ever Played" - Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.
• 1958 - Patrice Emery Lumumba, head of the Congolese National Movement, declares that "independence is a right, not a privilege".
• 1959 - Mexico: Se promulga la Ley de Seguridad Social que consagra catorce prestaciones y por la que la Dirección de Pensiones Civiles se transformará en Instituto de Seguridad Social de los Trabajadores al Servicio del Estado (ISSSTE), que entrará en vigor el 1º de enero del próximo año.
• 1959 - Jazz pianist Bill Evans records the album Portrait in Jazz with his newly formed Bill Evans Trio.
• 1959 - Ana Torroja was born. Spanish singer (Mecano).
• 1959 - Phil Abrams was born. American actor.
• 1960 - Raymond Bourque was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1962 - Rachel Z was born. American jazz pianist.
• 1962 - Michel Petrucciani was born (d. 1999). French jazz pianist.
• 1962 - Melissa R. Kelly was born. Former Maryland politician.
• 1962 - Kathleen Clifford dies (b. 1887). American actress.
• 1963 - Paul Hindemith dies (b. 1895). German composer.
• 1966 - Giulia Gam was born. Italo-Brazilian actress.
• 1967 - Chris Ware was born. American cartoonist.
• 1967 - Katharine McCormick dies (b. 1875). American women's rights activist.
• 1968 - Israeli commando troops destroy 13 civilian aircraft at Beirut International Airport.
• 1968 - "Beatles - The White Album" goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks.
• 1968 - 57th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (4-1).
• 1968 - Leonardo Vieira was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actor.
• 1969 - Linus Torvalds was born. Finnish computer programmer.
• 1970 - Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution.
• 1970 - Francesca Le was born. American porn star.
• 1970 - Muere en Buenos Aires Elena Sansisena de Elizalde, fundadora de la Asociación Amigos del Arte. Organizó las polémicas muestras de los pintores Emilio Pettoruti y Juan Del Prete y publicó valiosas ediciones de arte, como el "Martín Fierro", ilustrado por Adolfo Belloc. Nació en Buenos Aires en 1882.
• 1971 - Frank Sepe was born. American bodybuilder and model.
• 1971 - Benny Agbayani was born. American baseball player.
• 1971 - Burt Gillett dies (b. 15 Oct. 1891). American film director.
• 1971 - Max Steiner dies (b. 1888). Austrian-born American film music composer.
• 1972 - Patrick Rafter was born. Australian tennis player.
• 1972 - Adam Viniteri was born. American football player.
• 1973 - The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
• 1973 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Nobel awarded) published "Gulag Archipelag", an expose of the Soviet prison system.
• 1973 - Herborg Kråkevik was born. Norwegian singer and actress.
• 1973 - Seth Meyers was born. American actor.
• 1974 - Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress.
• 1974 - Jason Ridge was born. American porn actor.
• 1975 - B. J. Ryan was born. American baseball player.
• 1976 - Katharine Byron dies (b. 1903). U.S. Congresswoman.
• 1976 - Freddie King dies (b. 1934). American blues guitarist and singer.
• 1977 - Shane Elford was born. Australian sportsman.
• 1978 - Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace was born in London. English model and TV celebrity (3rd. place in Big Brother 7).
• 1978 - Chris Coyne was born. Australian footballer
• 1978 - John Legend was born. American singer, songwriter, and pianist.
• 1978 - Brigitte Kobel [Kisha] was born. Actress, musician.
• 1979 - James Blake was born. American tennis player.
• 1979 - Bill Hall was born. American baseball player.
• 1979 - Senna Guemmour was born. German Singer (Monrose).
• 1980 - Lomana LuaLua was born. Congo footballer.
• 1980 - Vanessa Ferlito was born. American actress.
• 1981 - The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
• 1981 - The HBO pay cable television service expanded its schedule offering to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
• 1981 - Pat Sajak starts hosting the daytime version of Wheel of Fortune.
• 1981 - Elizabeth Jordan Carr was born. American Test-Tube Baby.
• 1981 - Khalid Boulahrouz was born. Dutch footballer.
• 1981 - Mika Väyrynen was born. Finnish footballer.
• 1981 - Sienna Miller was born. English actress.
• 1981 - Allan Dwan dies (b. 1885). Canadian-born film director.
• 1982 - Nevell Johnson Jr., a black man, was mortally wounded by a police officer in a Miami video arcade, setting off three days of race-related disturbances that left another man dead.
• 1982 - Cedric Benson was born. American football player.
• 1982 - François Gourmet was born. Belgian decathlete.
• 1982 - Kevin Pereira was born. American television host.
• 1982 - Quinton Porter was born. American football player.
• 1982 - Wanessa Camargo was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1983 - Mike He was born. Taiwanese actor.
• 1983 - Dennis Wilson dies (b. 1944). Musician ("The Beach Boys").
• 1983 - William Demarest dies (b. 1892). American actor.
• 1983 - Jimmy Demaret dies (b. 1910). American golfer.
• 1984 - The Edge of Night, a long running daytime American soap opera ends after a 28 year run and 7420 episodes.
• 1984 - Leroy Lita was born. English footballer.
• 1984 - Alex Lloyd was born. British racing driver.
• 1984 - Daniel Ávila was born. Brazilian actor.
• 1984 - Sam Peckinpah dies (b. 1925). American film director.
• 1985 - Júlia Pinheiro / Rui Pêgo wedding.
• 1985 - Kamani Hill was born. American footballer
• 1985 - Taryn Terrell was born. American wrestler/model.
• 1986 - Tom Huddlestone was born. English football player.
• 1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky dies (b. 1932). Russian film director.
• 1987 - Thomas Dekker was born. American actor.
• 1989 - O Brasil quebra o recorde negativo de inflação na sua história, chegando a 1.764,86% ao ano.
• 1989 - Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czechoslovakia.
• 1989 - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
• 1989 - Mackenzie Rosman was born. American actress.
• 1989 - Hermann Oberth dies (b. 1894). German physicist.
• 1990 - David Archuleta was born. American Idol runner-up, American singer.
• 1991 - Sonic the Hedgehog Game Gear version is released in Japan.
• 1991 - Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year.
• 1991 - Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiminez, 20, of Venezuela, crowned 41st Miss World
• 1991 - Cassandra Harris dies (b. 1952). Australian actress.
• 1992 - NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana played in his final game as a San Francisco 49er in a victory over the Detroit Lions.
• 1992 - O parlamento iugoslavo vota a remoção do primeiro-ministro Milan Panic.
• 1992 - Daniella Perez dies murdered (b. 11 Aug 1970). Brazilian actress.
• 1992 - Otto Lara Resende dies (b. 1922). Brazilian journalist and writer.
• 1992 - Sal Maglie dies (b. 1917). Baseball player.
• 1993 - Banesto, bajo la dirección de Mario Conde, es intervenido por el Banco de España.
• 1994 - CIA Director R. James Woolsey resigned, ending a tenure that was shadowed by the Aldrich Ames spy scandal.
• 1994 - Jean-Louis Lévesque dies (b. 1911). French Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist.
• 1995 - CompuServe sets a precedent by blocking access to sex-oriented newsgroups after being pressured by German prosecutors.
• 1997 - WCW Championship: "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan loses his championship belt to Sting, at StarrCade
• 1997 - O governo de Hong Kong mata e incinera 1,3 milhão de galinhas na tentativa de eliminar o vírus da gripe, que havia matado quatro pessoas e causado temor de uma epidemia.
• 1998 - Claudia Benton of West University Place, Texas is murdered in her home by Angel Maturino Resendiz. This is Angel's third victim in his third incident.
• 1998 - Claudia Benton dies (b. 1959). Peruvian child psychologist.
• 1999 - Saparmurat Niyazov was proclaimed President for Life in Turkmenistan.
• 1999 - Clayton Moore dies (b. 1914). American actor.
• 2000 - Adrian Năstase became the Prime Minister of Romania.
• 2000 - U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
• 2001 - In Argentina thousands of people flooded banks as the government eased a 5-day bank holiday. Demonstrations ensued and riot police used rubber bullets and tear gas to quell violence at the Government House known as Casa Rosada.
• 2001 - Pakistan arrested some 50 leading members of 2 Islamic militant groups: Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Mahammed.
• 2001 - Japan’s Nikkei closed at its lowest year-end mark since 1983: 10,542.
• 2001 - Samuel A. Goldblith dies (b . 1919). American food scientist.
• 2001 - William X. Kienzle dies (b. 1928). American novelist.
• 2003 - Libya for the first time allowed U.N. nuclear officials to inspect four sites related to its nuclear weapons program.
• 2003 - Benjamin Hacker dies (b. 1935). U.S. admiral.
• 2004 - Jerry Orbach dies (b. 1935). American actor.
• 2004 - Susan Sontag dies (b. 1933). American writer and activist.
• 2005 - A U.S. immigration judge orders John Demjanjuk deported to the Ukraine for crimes against humanity committed during World War II.
• 2006 - Jamal Karimi-Rad dies (b. 1956). Iranian Minister of Justice.
• 2007 - Nepal declares a federal democratic Republic by interim parliament, abolishing the monarchy.
• 2007 - Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami dies (b. 1982). Iran national basketball team player.
• Calendar of Saints - Feast of the Holy Innocents, also known as Childermas, commemorating the Massacre of the Innocents on order of king Herod the Great. In Spain and Latin American countries the festival is celebrated in a manner similar to April Fool's Day.
• Proclamation Day in South Australia.
• Abel is commemorated on this day in the Coptic Church.

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